"Expressing the legitimate and irrepressible will of the Turkish Cypriot
people . . . we hereby declare before the world and history the
establishment of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus as an
independent state."

His audience, as Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash shrewdly surmised,
was far larger than the modest throng that gathered in Nicosia last
week to cheer his proclamation of a new Turkish Cypriot republic on the
divided Mediterranean island. It was a ringing declaration, but as soon...